To organise these gifts has taken me most of the year during which I've had little or no time to devote to anything else, not even personal hygiene.
After all, who has more than 3 minutes to devote to anything these days?
Our future, if we continue on our current projectile, is one in which an increasing amount of time, energy and money is spent in the pursuit of moulding our physical forms into a socially accepted blu-print and a diminishing amount of time is devoted to doing anything else.
By K. Burke and Stanley Edgar Hyman The New Yorker, September 25 , 1943P. 13 A new term that is having quite a vogue in criticism these days is "phatic communion", and it means the part of a conversation, say, or a book, or a play, or any work of art that is not devoted to communicating anything but merely establishes a relationship between speaker and listener or between artist and audience.
You can find a museum devoted to just about anything in London.
Whatever readers like, even if it's only bodice-rippers, anything devoted to books and writers is a plus.
He said that what happened next would show whether an institution devoted to learning has learned anything from the tragedy, and said he looked forward to working with Mr. Reif "to drive real structural change at the university to make sure that this kind of tragedy never happens again".
To date no one has produced any evidence to suggest that Elian's divorced father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, is anything but devoted to his son.
Indeed, for all the toys' talk about the glories of being played with, very little screen time is ever devoted to showing Andy actually doing anything with them; when we do see Andy flopping Woody around like a bean bag, neither of them seems to be having much fun.
